Honore Daumier – Artwork and Bio of French artist

 

Honore Daumier was a talented French artist born in Marseille on 26 February 1808. Honore’s father, Jean-Baptiste, was a glazier, poet, and copyright, albeit not so famous. Jean-Baptiste moved his family to Paris in 1816 to find favor in the court and become famous. Honore enjoyed a lower-middle-class education but leaned towards art rather than his studies.

At age 12, Daumier worked as a messenger for a law firm and later as a bookshop assistant. Honore’s persistence led his family to enroll him in informal classes with Alexander Lenoir, an artist, and friend of the family. Daumier gained formal art education at the Academie Suisse, where he met like-minded students.

Daumier earned a living as a lithographer and caricaturist for most of his career. The multi-talented artist was also a sculptor and exhibited more paintings later in his career. Honore’s caricatures mocked the political regime, and in 1862 King Louis-Philippe sentenced him to six months in prison. Daumier was awarded the French Legion of Honour award, which he declined twice because of his political standpoints. Honore Daumier died on 18 February 1879.

What was Honore Daumier Known For?

Honore Daumier was known for his satirical caricatures and was also identified as one of the pioneer artists with an Impressionist influence on modern art. Honore was politically inclined and led a fight against social injustice with his friends and fellow artists.

Who was Honore Daumier Influenced By?

Honore Daumier was influenced by Charles Ramelet, whom he learned lithography from. Daumier was also influenced by Paul Rubens, whose work he encountered during his time with Lenoir.

What Art Movement was Honore Daumier Associated With?

Honore Daumier was associated with the Impressionism and Realism art movements. Although his recognition as a painter came after his death, his paintings addressed literal subjects. In contrast, his other art forms focused on contemporary issues.

Honore Daumier’s Artwork

Below are some of the artworks of Honore Daumier.

 

The lawyers

 

Burden

 

Print collector

 

The laundress

 

The third class carriage

 

The uprising

 

Wandering saltimbanques

 

Self portrait

 

Family scene

 

The Ratapoil

 

The smiling man

 

Four lawyers

 

The three connoisseurs

 

Fatherly discipline

 

Alexandre Lecomte

 

Antoine Odier

 

Guizot

 

The Concierge

 

Three gossips

 

Frightened woman

All Honore Daumier Artwork on Artchive

Artwork Name	Year	Medium
Theobald Lacrosse	1849
Joachim-Antoine-Joseph Gaudry, Magistrate	1832
The Intermission		gouache,pencil,watercolor
The Intoxication of Silène	1848 - 1850	charcoal,pencil
The Kiss	c.1845 - c.1848	oil,panel
The Laundress	c.1860 - c.1861; France	oil,panel
The Lawyers	1854 - 1856	oil,panel
The Legislative Belly	1834	lithography
The Man with the cord		oil,canvas
The Nocturnal Travellers	c.1842 - c.1847	oil,wood
And the Two Great Remnants Consoled Each Other	1866
Jean-Claude Fulchiron (1774-1859), Deputy, Peer of France, and Poet	1832	clay
Jean-Louis Greppo	1849
Jean-Marie Fruchard (1788-1872), Deputy	1833	clay
Jean-Marie Harle, Deputy	1832	clay
Jean-Marie Harle, Harle father (1765-1838), Deputy	1833
Jean-Marie-Joseph Deville	1849
Jean-Ponce-Guillaume Viennet (1777-1868), Deputy, Peer of France and Academician	1832 - 1833	clay
Jean Vatout, Deputy	1832	clay
J.F.P. Denjoy	1849
Advice to a Young Artist	1860	oil,canvas
A Famous Cause	1862 - 1865	pencil,watercolor
Alexander Simon Pataille, MP	1832
Alexandre Bixio
Alexandre Lecomte, Magistrate	1832
Alexandre Lecomte, Magistrate	1833
Alexandre-Simon Pataille, Magistrate and Deputy
Amateurs at an Exhibition
Arrival of the Special Commissioner in Alsace Coco Romieu	1850
Attorney Reading		oil,canvas
Auguste Gady	1833
Augustus Ganneron Hippolyte (1792-1847), industrialist and MP		clay
A Wagon of the Third Class	1862	oil,canvas
A Wagon of the Third Class	c.1862 - c.1864	charcoal,ink,watercolor,paper
Babinet Deciding to Go off the Sun
Barker at a fair booth		oil,panel
Baron Jacques-Antoine-Adrien Delort (1773-1846), General and Deputy	1833	clay
Joyful Song Performed by M. Cobden
Jules Favre	1849
Larabit	1849
Laurent Cunin, Also Called Cunin-Gridaine, (1787-1859), Deputy and Peer of France	1832	clay
Leaving School	c.1847 - c.1848	oil,panel
Léon Faucher
Léon Faucher	1849
Lherbette	1849
The Painter		oil,wood
The Painter at His Easel		oil,wood
The Reader		oil,wood
The Refugees		oil,wood
There is nothing like that for the common cold, it is worth gold
The Republic	1848	oil,canvas
The Rescue		oil,canvas
The Riot or Scene of Revolution, or Destruction of Sodome
The Thieves and the Donkey	1858 - 1860	oil,canvas
Baron Joseph de Podenas (1782-1851), Deputy	1833	clay
Bathers
Bathers		pencil,watercolor
Bathers	c.1852 - c.1853	oil,panel
Beautiful injury, want you to accept my arm	1851	lithography
Benjamin Delessert, Industrial and MP	1832
Billiard Players (The Drinker)		oil,canvas
B. Sarrans Young	1848
Bust of a Woman	c.1850 - c.1855	oil,canvas
Bust of Francois-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot	1833
Louis-Joseph Buffet
Lovers of prints
Lunch in the Country	1868	oil,board
Marie-Michel Altaroche	1849
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian	1849 - 1850	oil,panel
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian	c.1849 - c.1852	oil,canvas
Mathieu de la Drôme (Sketch Winter)
M. Coste	1857
Meeting of thirty-five heads of expression		oil,panel
Menelas the Victor		lithography
The Troubadour		oil,canvas
The Two Doctors and Death		pencil,ink
The Widow at a Consultation	c.1846	lithography
Thiers
Thiers	1850
Thiers. The Prompter	1870
Three Amateurs in front of the Night Review of Raffet
Two Lawyers		oil,panel
Bust of Hippolyte Abraham, known as Abraham-Dubois	1833	bronze
Camille Desmoulins in the Palais Royal
Catch the juggler	1866	oil,canvas
Charles Guillaume Etienne	1832
Charles-Léonard Gallois (1774-1851), Publicist and Historian, Republican	c.1833	clay
Charles Philipon (1800-1861), Journalist and Director of the Magazines Caricature and Charivari	c.1833	clay
Claude Baillot, MP	1832
Clément-François-Victor-Gabriel Prunelle (1774-1853), Doctor, Major of Lyon and Deputy	c.1832	clay
Clément-François-Victor-Gabriel Prunelle (1774-1853), Doctor, Major of Lyon and Deputy	c.1832	clay
Mmrs Cobden, Bright and Sturges Had Nothing to do in Europe, Sailed to Go Pacify
Modern Galilee. And Nevertheless It Moves	1834	lithography
Montalembert
Mother with Child	1865	oil,canvas
Mr. Joliv (Adolphe Joliv)	1833	lithography
Nadar elevating Photography to Art	c.1862; France	lithography,print
Nicolas Soult, Marshal of France	1832
Odilon Barrot	1849
Odilon Barrot	1851
Two Lawyers the Handshake		pencil,watercolor
Two men looking at mid body to the left
Two Men Sitting with a Table, or the Smokers		oil,panel
Two Nymphs Pursued by Satyrs	1850
Two sketches for a dancer
Unknown, Alfred Pierre, Count de Falloux
Unknown, Charles Louis Huguet, Marquis de Semonville, Magistrate and Deputy
Unknown, maybe Hippolyte Lucien-Joseph Lucas (1807-1878), a Journalist, maybe P.Mendez de Vigo (1790-1860) a Spanish General, but Most Probably the Count Pelet de la Lozere (1785-1871), a Politician	1833	clay
Unknown, Pierre Louis, Count Roederer
Clytemnestra pushed by Mimi Veron (Rachel)
Comedy scene (scene from Molière)	1858 - 1862	oil,panel
Count Antoine-Maurice-Apollinaire d'Argout (1782-1858), Minister and Peer of France	1832	clay
Count Auguste-Hilarion de Kératry (1769-1859), Deputy, Peer of France	c.1832	clay
Count Charles Francois Malo De Lameth, Deputy	1832
Count Horace François Sebastiani, General and Politician	1832
Couples Singers		oil,canvas
Cuckoo! He's back	1870
Defense Attorney	c.1862 - c.1865
On the Shore	c.1849 - c.1853	oil,panel
Ouvirers		oil,panel
Page of history, Punishments of Victor Hugo	1870
Painter dividing into sheets a paperboard of drawing		oil,panel
Parade Acrobats		oil,panel
Passers By	c.1858 - c.1860	oil,canvas
Paul de Kock. The Big City	1842
Paul de Kock. The Big City	1842
Penelopa's Dream	1842	lithography
Véron	1852
Victor Hugo
Volouski	1849
We want Barabbas (Ecce Homo)	1842 - 1852
Woman and Child on a Bridge	c.1845 - c.1848	oil,panel
Zounds, Catherine
Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa		oil,panel
Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa		oil,canvas
Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa	c.1865 - c.1870	oil,canvas
Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa Having a Rest under a Tree	c.1855	oil,canvas
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza going to the wedding Gamaches	1850
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the Mountains		oil,panel
Don Quixote Reading	c.1865 - c.1870	oil,panel
Don Quixote, Sancho Pansa and the Dead Mule	1867	oil,canvas
Drouin de l'Huys	1849
Dr. Veron	1852
Pierre-Jules Baroche
Pierre-Paul Rover Collard, Deputy	1832
Pierrot with Guitar	1869	oil,canvas
Players		oil,panel
Poet Composing a Classical Eclogue on the Quiet Country Life	1840	lithography
Portrait of a girl A Sleeve-board		pencil,stump
Project to raise a statue to Odilon Nimrod	1851
Pygmalion	1842	lithography
Ratapoil	1851	bronze
Remembrances of St. Pelagie. (Souvenir de ste Pélagie)	1834	lithography
Dr. Veron	1852
Duvergier de Hauranne	1849
Emigrants or Fugitives		oil,panel
Emile Ollivier	1869
Emmanuel Arago
Exit of the Turkish school
Family on the Barricades, 1848	1854	oil,wood
Father Saw	1832
Returning from the market	1870	oil,canvas
Robert Macaire Bureau of Military Replacements	1839	lithography
Robert Macaire Business Men	1836	lithography
Rouher. I can never wash all this (dirty linen of the Empire)	1872
Rue Pierre Lescot, The Streets of Paris under Louis Lurin	1844
Sancho Panza and Don Quixote in the Mountains		oil,canvas
Singers in Front of a Desk		oil,canvas
St. Magdalene in the Desert	c.1848 - c.1852	oil,canvas
Street Scene. Two Characters in the Back of a Car Service
Study for the Parade		pencil
Felix Barthe (1796-1863), Minister of Justice and Deputy	1833	clay
Ferdinand Flocon	1849
Fighters of circus		oil,panel
Fighting Bricklayer		oil,wood
Four Amateur Print Lovers		oil,panel
François-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874), Deputy, Minister and Historian	1832 - 1833	clay
Gargantua	1831	lithography
Garnier Pagès	1849
Study for the Parade
Study of a Terrified Woman		charcoal,pencil
Study of three naked women lying at the foot of a cliff
Sunday	1822	lithography
Tenants and owners	1847
Testimony of a Minor		gouache,pen,ink
The Print Collector
Theater		oil,canvas
The Beautiful Narcissus	1842	lithography
The Beggars	c.1845	oil,canvas
Glais Bizoin	1869
Grand Staircase of the Palace of Justice	1848	lithography
Group of Actors at Mid Body, the Former French Comedy	1862 - 1865	oil,canvas
Head of a Young Woman, Leaning Three-quarters Right
Head of Pasquin	1862 - 1863	oil,panel
Hector Berlioz	1860
Henri Monnier
Hercule forain
Horse drawn		oil,canvas
I definitely like him	1866
The Burden (The Laundress)	1850 - 1853	oil,canvas
The Butcher		pencil,watercolor
The Capitulation of Sedan	1870
The carnival parade
The Children with the bath		oil,panel
The clinic of Doctor Macaire
The Conclusion of a Speech à la Demosthene	1848	lithography
The Court		oil,canvas
The Defender	c.1862 - c.1865	gouache,watercolor,paper
Adolphe Cremieux	c.1860	lithography
Adolphe Cremieux (Mr Cremieux seeking an apartment)	1848
In the Omnibus	1864	crayon,ink,watercolor,paper
In the Street	1850 - 1855	oil,canvas
It's true you have lost your case... but you should have gotten a lot of pleasure hearing me plead [your case		lithography
Jacques Antoine Adrien, Baron Delort (1773-1846), General and Deputy	1833
Jacques Babinet	1857
Jacques Babinet	c.1857 - c.1858
Jacques Lefévre (1777-1856), Banker and Deputy	1833	clay
Jean-Auguste Chevandier de Valdrome (1781-1878), Deputy and Peer of France	1833	clay
Jean Charles Persil, Magistrate and Deputy	1832
The Emigrants	1848	plaster
The Engraving Dealers		oil,canvas
The Print Collector	c.1857 - c.1860	oil,canvas
The Print Collector	c.1860 - c.1863	oil,canvas
The Print Collector	c.1863 - c.1865	oil,wood
The Expert		gouache,pencil,watercolor
The Feeding Trough		oil,panel
The Hypochondriac		oil,panel
The Imaginary Invalid
The Insurrection	c.1852 - c.1858	oil,canvas
Wandering Saltimbanques	c.1847 - c.1850	Oil on Panel
At The Theater (the Melodrama)	c. 1860-64	Oil On Canvas
A Man Reading In A Garden	c. 1866-68	Watercolor Over Black Chalk, With Pen And Ink, Wash, And Conte Crayon On Wove Paper
Don Quixote And Sancho Panza	c. 1850
The Painter At His Easel	c. 1870-75	Oil On Panel
The Print Collectors	c. 1860-63	Oil On Panel
Children Coming Out Of School	c. 1847-48	Oil On Panel
The Past, The Present, The Future	1834	Lithograph On Heavy White Paper; First State Of Two
The Two Lawyers	c. 1862-64	Oil On Panel
Two Sculptors		Oil On Wood
Crispin and Scapin	c.1863 - c.1865	Oil on Canvas
Laundress on the Quai d'Anjou (Laveuse au Quai d'Anjou)	c. 1860	Oil on wood panel, cradled
Clown Playing a Drum	c. 1865-67	Black chalk, pen and ink, wash, watercolor, gouache, and Conte Crayon on paper
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza	c. 1866-68	Oil on Canvas
The Chess Players	c.1863 - c.1867	Oil on Panel
André-Marie-Jean-Jacques Dupin (Dupin the Elder)	1832
Mr Daumier, your series...is...charming	1838	Lithograph
Rue Transnonain, 15 April 1834	1834	Lithograph
The Third-Class Carriage	1863-65	Oil on Canvas
The Uprising	c. 1860	Oil on Canvas
Three Lawyers Conversing	c. 1862-65	Oil on panel
The Fugitives	c. 1849-50	Oil on panel